The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-02

/ age, got in the way as the pole came rouha
| and il struck her on the bead, killing her al
most instantly. When the father reached
the spot the child was dead.
Mr. Ferman has left Tampa for his
| health. Just after he left, he was called LOT
| by party Of gentlemen, who intended ex-
pressing their feelings in way to be re-
membered, if not enjoyed. In plain Eng
lish they intended TO dress him III coat OF
| tar and feathers Ferman kept grocery,
and had been guilty, it is charged, OF psLpe-
| trating outrageS, on the persons OF nJtle
girls sent to his store, too indecent TO men.
ton. The affair is kept very quiet our OF
respect for the feelings of the parents, put
public indignation is at boiling point ana II
will not be well with Mr.. Ferman If he Is
caught in Tampa
Sabal johnson, residing few miles west
| of Oakland, and about three-quarters OF a
mile south of the homestead of Peter Good
| rich, found that an orange tree, twenty
| years old, in his grove was not doing Wen.
| Remedies were applied in vain and finally
the tree died Being inclined to investigate
the matter he dug down n distance OF six or
| eight feet to see if the growth of the tap
root was impeded in any way. Here the
discovery was made of huge stone coffin
or box seven and a half or eight feet long,
containing the bones of Seminole Indian
and a'variety of aboriginal curioslties. The
| lid of the coffin or box WIS in two pieces
| and similar to the limestone now being found
i'll such large quantities near Mascotte.
Friday Sheriff D. B. Bird, with Justice
Puleston and six jurors, repaired to Union
church, where Jim Shackleford was buried
about thirteen miles from Monticello
After some delay the body was dug up,
which had been inferred about eleven or
| twelve days A post mortem examination
! hold hxy nv. T1Irrlt,l Jxrbo stated fba
| jury that there was a fracture of the skull
over the left ear, from which the doctor
extracted a piece of loose hone about the
size of a quarter Of a dollar. The body was
very much decomposed. The history of
the terrible murder is as follows:
Some three weeks ago, while playing a
game of base ball, dispute arose between
Lee Bates and the deceased about the de
cision of the umpire Words passed, and
finally Lee Bates struck the deceased with a
base ball bat and knocked him to the ground
| The deceased lived about nine days after his
| skull was fractured, but was IN an uncOn-
scious condition, 1t is not known why the
man was buried without Coroner's inquest,
and had it not been for the alertness of
| Sheriff Bird this terrible murder would
| have been buried, and the murderer allowed
to go at large UNPUBLISHED.
From the following facts and figures OBJ
| Ldllltl IIOlu lilb tuSlD4il III Is dDIdItIu
| that the maritime business of Jacksonville
is mere bagatelle compared TO what it was
a few years ago, and there is marked
| deficit between the months of June and
July: For the month of July there have
been eleven entrances-five sail and six
steam veSsels-against nineteen sail and one
steam vessel for the month of June, 1887,
and sixteen sail and eleven steam for the
month of July, 1886. For the month just
lFa!.a fhar TAA
partures-seven sail and six steam
vessels, against eleven steam and eight
sail vessels for the month of June.
For the month ending Saturday at p. IN.
there have been shipped both by sail and
| steam vessels, to Coastwise ports, 2,S40, 900
feet of yellow pine lumber, against 3,64S, 900
feet for the month of June, and 3,44i, 900
feet for the month of July, 1886. Besides
lumber, there were also shipped 5000 cross
ties, 1900 barrels of naval stores, 3, 700 bun
dies cypress shingles, 1000 watermelons
one steam launch and n large number of
miscellaneous packages. Besides an unusual
amount of merchandise freightS there were
| received by incoming vessels: $50 tons of
COAL 375 tons of jetty stone, 800 rolls of
roofing, 23S barrels fertilizer, 800 barrels
flour, COS barrels oil, Is barrels naphtha, 5
barrels whisky, 1850 barrels lime, and
| 5000 bags of oats
IRAN u on the south FLORIDA railroad,
consisting of engine No. 0, four box cars, a
caboose, and one coach, was wrecked half a
mile south of Cork, Hillsborough county,
Saturday. Jacob Abrams, the fireman,
was instantly killed, and w S. Clark, the
engineer, is badly injured, but not fatally,
his injuries consisting Of bruises and his
whole right side being badly scalded. No
passengers were injured. Engine 8 is a
complete wreck, and is lying on
its side in the ditch. The four box
cars are piled up and broken. The
| caboose and coach remain on the track I'M
injured. The deceased fireman leaves a
wife and five children. His life was insured
for $1,000. The engineer is insured in an
| English accident insurance company for
| IS, 600 The wreck was caused by the heavy
rains washing the roadbed from under the
cross-ties 1t lad been raining a deluge
since II o'clock Friday night. Immediately
after the accident passengers went to the ell
| CINE and found the engineer and fireman
| buried under the wood from the tender.
The debris was removed by willing hands as
rapidly as possible, and there was discov-
| cred the fireman dead, with his neck broken,
| and the engineer bruised and scalded by
! escaping steam from the boiler. Conductor
Davant sent train hand to Plant City for
n doctor, who reached the wreck at O'Clock
and Immediately gave Engineer Clark
| proper medical attention. The officials of
the South Florida railroad did everything
necessary for the comfort of the passengers
who were transferred to a wreck train.